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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:32 AM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 18th: Do you think you will develop solutions for SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint development has always been a little bit “lumpy” but Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 plan to make thing much easier – yet offer more control and power. There are some great resources popping up to help you get started such as: Get Started
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:30 PM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 4th: How excited are you about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download – but are you excited?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:34 PM

Picture of me

Someone on twitter just asked - “I like your caricature but what do you really look like”. Brace yourselves! 1st the caricature: Which was done from this shot from a couple of years back (notice how the double chin vanished in the drawing – sweet): Now
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:57 PM

Free WPF, Silverlight and 3.5 SP1 training for UK Developers

At the start of 2009 we worked with InnerWorkings to help over 7000 UK developers get access to free training in C# or VB. As there are at least 100,000 UK developers (depends who you ask), we decided to again partner with InnerWorkings to bring you free
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:45 PM

Slides and links from Windows Azure Platform Storage session

I delivered a session on Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Database at the UK Azure user group on the 6th of October. A big thanks to everyone who attended – and for putting up with my last minute improvisation when we realised that 2/3rd of the audience
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Friday, October 02, 2009 1:12 PM

Two great UK conferences – yet so different! Bathcamp and Software Architect 2009

Last Saturday I attended BathCamp near Bath and Tues through Thursday I attended Software Architect 2009 in London. I loved both conferences yet they are so very different. Hence (in a blokey way) I thought it would be interesting to summarise and compare.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:20 AM

Midnight and the Azure and Entity Framework decks are now final and available for download

You might have been following this series of posts on my preparation for Software Architect 2009. Well, this evening while sitting in a small hotel room in London (with no window and a dodgy tv) I completed both presentations and made them available for
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:52 PM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the last day retrospective

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day five (The last day): Play, play, play with the technology.  PART DONE Produce outline skeleton demo sequence
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Friday, September 25, 2009 9:54 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day four and the slides are done

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day four (Thursday): Produce final drafts of each deck and post them so delegates can check out what I’m covering. DONE
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:10 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day three was Entity Framework 4 day. I love it!

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day three: Nearly got it all done. However I ended up spending more time on EF4 than I had planned as … there is a lot of it! Gather
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:27 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day two and my love for Boot from VHD

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day two: The Tuesday plan vs actual was … 100% spot on. Install Entity Framework CTP on Windows XP Mode. SUCCESS Install VS2010
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:50 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day one summary and the eureka moment

This is the second in a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. In case you don’t want to skim through the whole post, the main things I learnt in day one are: 1. Never forget that install errors can
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:07 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the quiet before the storm

Next week I am presenting two sessions at Software Architect 2009 . Both sessions are new, new in the sense that I am creating them this week and new in the sense that whilst they are on topics I have experience with, in each case there is a significant
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:03 AM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for Sept 16th 2009: How do you do Unit Testing?

[From a suggestion by Ian Cooper ] There are many different approaches to unit testing software , from manual testing to Test Driven Development . In many organisations the developer of the code will unit test their own code, however in some organisations
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:59 PM

AltNetUK conference was a great way to spend a weekend

Last weekend (August 1st and 2nd 2009) I went into London to attend the Alt.NET UK Conference or more specifically two separate but related days. This was my first ever Alt.NET conference and I absolutely loved it. It was exciting to be around so many
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